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John McCarthy was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist, one of the founders of artificial intelligence. He co-authored the term "artificial intelligence", invented Lisp, influenced ALGOL, and received many awards, including the Turing Award.
Aug 31, 2024 · John McCarthy (born September 4, 1927, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.—died October 24, 2011, Stanford, California) was an American mathematician and computer scientist who was a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence (AI); his main research in the field involved the formalization of commonsense knowledge.
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Oct 25, 2011 · John McCarthy, who coined the term "artificial intelligence" and invented LISP, passed away in 2011. He was a professor emeritus of computer science at Stanford and a recipient of the Turing Award, the Kyoto Prize and the National Medal of Science.
Learn about John McCarthy, a legendary computer scientist who developed time-sharing, invented LISP, and founded AI. Explore his work, social commentary, and acknowledgements on his website.
1980. Recursive functions of symbolic expressions and their computation by machine. J McCarthy. 2669 *. 1959. Recursive functions of symbolic expressions and their computation by machine, Part I. J McCarthy. Communications of the ACM 3 (4), 184-195. , 1960.
Oct 25, 2011 · John McCarthy, a professor emeritus of computer science at Stanford, the man who coined the term “artificial intelligence” and subsequently went on to define the field for more than five decades, died suddenly at his home in Stanford in the early morning Monday, Oct. 24. He was 84.
Nov 30, 2011 · The scientist who set computers on the path to common sense. In 1955, a group of scientists approached the Rockefeller Foundation with a request to fund “a 2 month, 10 man...
